CURRICULUM VITAE Name: S(usan) Jocelyn BELL BURNELL Address: University of Oxford, Astrophysics, Denys Wilkinson Building, Keble Road, Oxford OX1 3RH, United Kingdom Telephone: 01865 273306 Fax: 01865 273390 E-mail: [email protected] Date of birth: 15 July 1943 1. EDUCATION AND TRAINING 1956 - 61 The Mount School, York; 8O, 3A, 2S levels 1961 - 65 The University of Glasgow, Glasgow; BSc Hons Physics 1965 - 68 The University of Cambridge, Cambridge; PhD 1989 SERC/AFRC/NERC Senior Management Training Course 1989 - 90 Open University Management Course 'Women into Management' 1990 Spanish GCSE 2. PRESENT POSITIONS 2018 – present, Chancellor, University of Dundee 2004 – present University of Oxford, Visiting Professor, Department of Physics and Professorial Fellow, Mansfield College • Department: member of Graduate Cttee, Graduate Selection Cttee; lecturer on Graduate Course; supervisor or mentor to several graduate students; graduate student ombudsman. • Mansfield College: Governing Body. Tutor for Women Students and Welfare Advisory Panel and Equal Opportunities Policy and Oversight Cttee 2005 -7. Chair, Search Committee for new Principal, 2009-10. • University: committee to select next VC (2007 – 8); FEST Advisory Board (2007 – 10); Gender Equality Scheme Steering Committee (2007 - 12); Co-opted member Equality and Diversity Panel (2012 - ) 3. SCIENTIFIC AND MANAGEMENT EXPERIENCE 1965- 1968 University of Cambridge • Discovered first four pulsars 1968 - 1973 University of Southampton • 1968 - 70 Science Research Council Fellowship • 1970 - 73 Junior Teaching Fellowship • Assisted in the design and development of the first 1 - 10 MeV gamma ray telescope. • Undergraduate teaching: introductory atomic and nuclear physics; first quantum mechanics course. 1 1974 - 1991 raising a family; part-time portfolio as follows: 1974 - 1982 Mullard Space Science Laboratory, UCL • 1974 - 76 (part-time) Graduate Programmer • 1976 - 82 (part-time) Associate Research Fellow • Operations manager for the X-ray spectrometer on the Ariel V satellite; optimised the science output from it; supervised two members of staff. • Involved in many discoveries with this successful equipment. • PR work (exhibitions, press conferences) for laboratory. 1982-1991 Royal Observatory, Edinburgh • 1982 - 86 (part-time) Senior Research Fellow • 1985 - 86 (part-time) Astronomer in charge of the Visitor Centre • 1986 - 90 (part-time) Head of James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) Section - as Senior Scientific Officer till 1989, then as grade 7. • 1991 (part-time) Project Manager, EDISON project. • As Head of Visitor Centre and Observatory Publicity Officer organised exhibitions, publicity and special events. Increased number of visitors and shop sales by 80%; supervised four staff. • As Head of the JCMT Section responsible for building up the Section, defining functions, determining job descriptions, recruitment, induction and training of staff; establishing methods of operation, monitoring and analysing the effectiveness of these; responsible for liaison with the international user community, for management of the programme for the construction of new receivers in laboratories in three countries, and for presentation of policy, planning and reporting materials at international committees and Board in support of operations. Management of a budget of £1 million (in four currencies) and six staff (two on secondment from overseas). • Undergraduate teaching: course on neutron stars to final year students. 1991 - 2001 The Open University • 1991 - 01 Professor of Physics • 1992 - 99 Chair of Physics Department • As Chair of the Physics Department responsible for some 65 staff, including recruitment, staff development, appraisal, negotiation and scheduling of workloads, resource allocations and the delivery of teaching materials to some 4700 students p.a. on physics courses. Major development work: redirection of the Department - research income grew 5 fold between 1992 and 1996, and the number of refereed research publications grew 30%; creation and leadership of the astrophysics research group - this group grew to 25 - 30 people. • Research interests: the astrophysics of neutron stars, the study of Cygnus X-3 and other energetic binary systems, the physics of plerions. • Undergraduate teaching: astronomy and planetary science; introductory physics; relativity and cosmology; Fourier optics. At University of Warwick, 3rd/4th year option on ‘Neutron Stars'. 1999 - 2000 Princeton University • Visiting Professor for Distinguished Teaching (on leave from Open University) 2 • One of two University-appointed VPDTs, hosted by Physics Department. Teaching Sophomore mechanics, and a Freshman Seminar. Working with Physics Faculty on a re-examination of the Physics courses and teaching, and on making the Department more ‘woman-friendly'. Advising on distance education. • Colloquia/classes/talks at: Arecibo, Bell Labs, Berkeley, Carleton College MN, Carnegie Institute Washington, Chicago, Columbia, Georgian Court College NJ, Goddard, Guilford College NC, Haverford College PA, Illinois, Livermore, NIST, The College of New Jersey, NRL, NYU, Princeton Gravity Group, Princeton Plasma Lab, Stockton College NJ. 2001 - 04 University of Bath, Dean of Science • Appointed to manage a budget of £23M, 3000 students and 530 staff in 9 Departments. Chair of Faculty Board of Studies, Chair of Faculty Executive. Attend Court and Council, member of Senate and University Executive. Member Council Nominations Committee. Chair Ethics Committee 2001 – 03. Equal Opportunities Champion 2003 – 04. Chair Student Experience and Strategy Committee 2002 – 04. Chair Steering Group Institute for Scientific, Architectural, Industrial and Archaeological Heritage (ISAIAH) 2002 – 4. 4. PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES Membership of Professional Bodies • Fellow Royal Astronomical Society 1969 - • Fellow Institute of Physics 1992 - ; Honorary Fellow 2012 - • Member American Astronomical Society 1992 – ; Hon Member 2015 - • Member International Astronomical Union 1979 - • Fellow Royal Society of Arts 1999 – 2011 • Fellow Royal Society 2003 – • Fellow Royal Society of Edinburgh 2004 –; President 2014 - 8 • Foreign Associate, US National Academy of Sciences, 2005 – • Hon Member Royal Irish Academy 2012 – ; Chair of Strategy Cttee 2018 • Member American Philosophical Society 2016 – • Hon Member The Science Academy, Istanbul (Bilim Akademisi) 2016 – • International Hon Member American Academy of the Arts and Sciences 2018 - Public Service • Trustee, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich 2000 – 09 • Trustee, Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institute 2003 – 4 University Governance (see also under Dean of Science, University of Bath) • Member Open University Senate 1991 - 2001 • Cttee for the appointment of OU's next Vice Chancellor 2000 - 01 • Open University Council 1997 - 99 Council Membership Committee 1998 - 99 Open University Finance Committee 1998 - 99 • Oxford University Physical Sciences Board Promotions Cttee 1999 - 00, 01 – 02, 05 - 06 3 • Member of External Panel reviewing University of Oxford’s Physics Department 2001 – 2 • Elector, several Cambridge University Physics Chairs, 2006, 07, 09. • University of Cambridge; Nominations Board for the Offices of Chancellor and High Steward, 2003 – 2014 • University of Oxford, Nominating Committee for the Vice-Chancellor, 2005 - 10 • Mansfield College, Oxford, Governing Body • Cambridge University Library Visiting Committee 2008 – 14 • Chair, Search Committee for new Principal of Mansfield College, 2009-10 Baroness Helena Kennedy elected. • Advisory Council, Durham University Institute of Advanced Study, 2012 – 14 • Strategic Orientation Committee, Paris Science et Lettres Research University 2012 – 7 • Pro-Chancellor, University of Dublin (Trinity College) 2013 – 8 • External member, Heriot-Watt Principal/VC Appointment Committee 2015 • External member UCD Review of School of Physics 2017 Professional Science – UK (See also under International, below) • Editor of The Observatory 1973 - 76 • SERC Astronomy I Committee 1978 - 84 Vice Chair 1983 - 84 Also gamma-ray panels, NRAO Panel • BNSC Space Science Programme Board 1991 - 92 X-ray Panels, Rolling Grants Panel, ISO Panels 1986 - 92 • SERC/PPARC Radio Astronomy Panels 1991 - 97 • PPARC Astron and Astrophys Cttee 1992 - 94 UKIRT Users/Programme/Steering Cttee 1992 - 95 Rolling Grant Panel 1994, 96 • PPARC Ground Based Facilities Committee 1998 – 00 • PPARC/STFC Chair Advanced LIGO Oversight Committee 2003 – 11 • Royal Astronomical Society: Council Member 1978 - 81, 92 - 95 Vice President 1995 – 97 President 2002 - 04 • Deputy Chair, Standing Conference of Physics Professors, 2001 – 3 • Science Council 2002 – 04, 08 – 10. • Royal Society: Council member and member of President’s Informal Review Group 2004 – 6. Editorial Board, Proceedings: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 2004 – 06 Summer Exhibition Committee 2004 – 9 (Chair 2007 - 9) Hooke Committee 2007 – 9 Awards Nominations Committee 2011- 14 Faraday Award Committee, 2011 – 2014 • Leverhulme Trust, Astronomy Prize Cttee, 2005, 2007, 2009. • RSA Risk Commissioner 2006 – 8 4 • Scientific Organising Committee, X-ray source populations, Florida November 2007 • Institute of Physics (50000 members): Patron, Einstein Year Programme 2004 – 5 President-elect 2007 – 8; President 2008-10; Recalled as President Jan 2011 – Oct 2011. • Royal Society of Edinburgh: D2 Sectional Committee 2009-13 Chair, Inquiry into Women in SET in Scotland, 2010 – 12 President 2014 - 8 • SEPNET